Which decade has the best "High School" movies?

[Bornstarch]

Which decade do you think has the best high school movies? I'm watching the Breakfast Club right now for the first time.

 

[dc007]

80s

 

[Fuzzybabyducks]

80s

 

[emefer]

Eighties

 

[owen_taggart]

What they said.

 

[BisexualMMA]

80s by a country mile. There are ones most people haven't seen that would be top ten or better for any other decade.

 

[lakersfan45]

80s but 10 things is the goat then say anything

 

[FyrFytr998]

80’s

 

[owen_taggart]

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80’s

Of course no one could actually post a GIF of that scene revealing all 'cause "rules"...

 

[NoSmilez]

I never really saw any of the 80s high school movies but stuff from the superbad era is peak for me.

 

[Plutoburn]

These types of thread usually reveals more about the poster's age than anything else.

 

[Chest Rockwell]

Dazed and Confused is the goat, would need a comprehensive list of other 90s flicks to really judge. Can't Hardly Wait was cool, but the 80s was riddled with bangers for sure. Can't Buy me Love was always my favorite.

 

[Ezekiel 25:17]

Which decade do you think has the best high school movies? I'm watching the Breakfast Club right now for the first time.

80s...no contest whatsoever.

 

[ookii]

 

[Fedorgasm]

It has to be the 80s.

In the 90s they got gunshy about showing nudity from 23-year old actresses that were playing high school students.

But in the 80s...

 

[BisexualMMA]

Those ten plus...

Teen Wolf
Better Off Dead
Three O'Clock High
The Heavenly Kid
Can't Buy Me Love
Stand and Deliver
Lean on Me
Back to the Future
Summer School
Vision Quest
My Bodyguard
etc.

 

[Kudo]

00s for me. That's when I was a teenager. 80s comes second.

American Pie 2, American Wedding
Scary Movie 1 & 2
Road Trip
Euro Trip
Sex Drive
Superbad
The Girl Next Door

 

[Jesus X]

End of thread/

 

[Jesus X]

00s for me. That's when I was a teenager. 80s comes second.

American Pie 2, American Wedding
Scary Movie 1 & 2
Road Trip
Euro Trip
Sex Drive
Superbad
The Girl Next Door

2001

 

[moreorless87]

Those ten plus...

Teen Wolf
Better Off Dead
Three O'Clock High
The Heavenly Kid
Can't Buy Me Love
Stand and Deliver
Lean on Me
Back to the Future
Summer School
Vision Quest
My Bodyguard
etc.

Really the 80's had the advantage that high school films were not just cheap comedies and slashers, both of which have often produced a lot of not very good films whatever the decade because their aiming at a very undemanding audience.

The 00's I think you did have a bit of a revival of that as well but it didnt ever really become the default setting.